Quotes by Nastassja Kinski

• It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work.
• You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.
• Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.
• It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
• It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
• My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
• It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.
• The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
• To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.
• Water for me is so essential, like swimming.
• You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.
• I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.
• I love men who make me laugh.
• Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
• Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.
• Actors, after all, dream.
• I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
• But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?
• I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.
• Having children is what a woman is born for, really.
• I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.
• I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
• I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
• I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
• I want to do movies but not talk about them.
• I want to feel good, I want to feel proud, I want to feel that I give someone enough and that I get enough.
• I live for being with the people I love and to live as happily as possible.
• And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.